Year 9

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

The very act of remembering his free, natural condition – that he is meant for serving Krsna – restores the soul to his unalloyed senses and frees him from the bondage of fruitive work and cures him of the disease of illusion. As he has been in bondage from before his coming under the domain of divisible time, his bondage is called eternal and he is said to be eternally fettered...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Śrī Caitanyadeva has commanded that society should ever remain under the control of the religion of pure devotion. It is then that the society will have its true value as being favourable to the practice of serving God; otherwise it will be the contra-divine society worthy of asuras, or people with demonic characteristics...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

In a like manner, most philosophers or religious sects conceive of the undifferentiated Truth – because it the opposite of differentiated matter – as the ultimate object of attainment. Thus they endeavour to approximate that undifferentiated Truth with the help of their personal experiences, which in turn are a product of their material senses...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Humankind’s highest purpose is to attain unconditional and unending bhakti for the Transcendent Source, which is the perfect fulfilment of self...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

The Divine Entity is the lotus feet of sri guru in the order of the spiritual successors of Sri Vyasa – he whose chanting actually awakens our recollection of the divinity, just by listening to it. All of us are His servants...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam declares that the loving devotee of Kṛṣṇa is maddened by the ecstasy of joy. Oblivious of the salutary conventions of theistic society that provide the performance of worship in the most dignified manner and with all due solemnity, the devotee laughs, cries, dances and sings in ecstasy...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Those who may hesitate to accept the above view of the real nature of the dance of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya should find it impossible to explain the occurrence of the corresponding activity in our present life, and also the extraordinary value that is attached to it, especially by those who are most anxious to deny its propriety in the conception of the Absolute Personality...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Chanting the holy name with knowledge of one’s relationship with Him is the only service to Kṛṣṇa that is available to the fallen jīvas, and by it, they are able to attain the sole object of their existence: love for Kṛṣṇa...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Only when the jīva attains transcendental knowledge, and is therefore freed from every non-spiritual pre-occupation, does he employ himself in serving the transcendent Supreme Godhead. Loving service to the Supreme Godhead is the only means and the only end of renouncing the activities of the external world...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

It is possible to ascertain the comparative value of different religious practices and doctrines that are now current in the world. For such a purpose, it will be necessary to accept interpretations of them that are offered by their actual followers...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

The comparative study of religions attempted in this journal seeks to avoid any foul against any practice or doctrine that is really in keeping with the religion of unmixed service to the Absolute, as professed by all the revealed creeds of the world...

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

The waving of the light before the emblematic figure of the Divinity is as much an activity of the soul as the exposition of the Bhāgavatam when each is performed by the pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa. But the performance of apparently identical versions of these activities by conditioned souls possesses no spiritual value whatsoever...